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Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Since political hacks are inclined to take credit for the sun coming up every day, I will be the first to declare victory in my ongoing campaign against the USDA Graduate School.  An alert reader (holy crap! I have readers?) points me to this little passage in HR 6124 which became law in June.
`(B) TERMINATION [...]

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    Congress, Craziness, Government, Legislation, Self-Promotion, Taxes, Waste | 2 Comments »

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Obama on Friday proposed a return to the good old days of Jimmy Carter’s energy policies by suggesting a windfall profits tax on oil producers.
The new Obama ad also pushes his proposal to revive a windfall profits tax on energy companies and asserts that McCain favors tax breaks for the oil industry.
“A windfall profits tax [...]

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    Barack Obama, Candidates, Craziness, Democrats, Elections, Government, Pandering, Political Parties, Politics, Taxes | No Comments »

Monday, July 28th, 2008

This is a little late, but I was out on travel last week and didn’t have much time to sit and put thoughts together.  As I watched Obama trek through the Middle East and Europe last week, a remarkable thing happened.  The Iraqi Prime Minister gave the Bush Administration the greatest gift it could have [...]

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    Barack Obama, Democrats, Elections, Government, Iraq, John McCain, Politics, Republicans, War | No Comments »

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

(cross-posted at Red State and The Next Right)
The Politico today has a column penned by David All, a young GOP internet consultant, and Saul Anuzis, Chairman of the Michigan GOP. The column looks at the premise that the GOP is behind its Democratic counterparts online, and suggests one possible reason why [...]

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    Broadband Policy, Congress, Craziness, Legislation, Net Neutrality, Pandering, Republicans, Technology, The Internet | No Comments »

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Shelbinator has a ridiculous little post up defending Rep. Capuano’s braindead attempt to regualte YouTube for political speech.  Patrick Ruffini at The Next Right has a good post up calling out the frightening number of Dems trying to make this about partisanship.
The fact is the whole thing is stupid.  Capuano’s argument for why he is [...]

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    Bloggers, Congress, Craziness, Government, The Internet, Web 2.0, You Tube | 1 Comment »

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